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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Jackson, MS

April 2, 2000Madison County, Rankin County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Apr 2, 2000, 5:15 PM CDT for Madison County, Rankin County, Mississippi. It was in force for 30 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Apr 2, 2000, 5:15 PM CDT (22:15 UTC)
Expired: Apr 2, 2000, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Madison County, MS, Rankin County, MS

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 2, 3:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 33 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 606 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 682 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 258 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 230 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 4.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KJAN 022216
TORJAN
MSC089-121-022245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
515 PM CDT SUN APR 2 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN RANKIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
  MADISON COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT

* AT 515 PM CDT...AMATEUR RADIO WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A          
  TORNADO OVER NORTHERN RANKIN COUNTY'...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHEAST  
  OF CANTON...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.

LAT...LON 3247 9006 3244 8986 3277 8976 3281 8993

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 1, 6:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Humphreys, Leflore	39 min
Apr 1, 6:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Holmes	37 min
Apr 1, 10:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll, Leflore	29 min
Apr 1, 10:44 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Grenada	4 hr
Apr 1, 11:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Montgomery	25 min
Apr 1, 11:26 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Carroll, Leflore	4 hr
Apr 1, 11:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Washington	27 min
Apr 2, 7:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Sharkey	37 min
Apr 2, 7:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes, Yazoo	31 min
Apr 2, 7:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	34 min
Apr 2, 9:40 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Holmes	110 min
Apr 2, 4:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Issaquena, Warren	43 min
Apr 2, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yazoo	44 min
Apr 2, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson	28 min
Apr 2, 5:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	36 min
Apr 2, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne	36 min
Apr 2, 5:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Leake, Scott	26 min
Apr 2, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	45 min
Apr 2, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Warren	38 min
Apr 2, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Attala	50 min
Apr 2, 5:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Leake	47 min
Apr 2, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Newton, Scott	43 min
Apr 2, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds	41 min
Apr 2, 6:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Neshoba	47 min
Apr 2, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Simpson, Smith	43 min
Apr 2, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Madison	45 min
Apr 2, 6:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Newton	26 min
Apr 2, 6:41 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Adams, Jefferson	2 hr
Apr 2, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	60 min
Apr 2, 6:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Kemper, Noxubee, Winston	40 min
Apr 2, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne	37 min
Apr 2, 6:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds	20 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.